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...Harvard Dining Association voted last month by 638 to 55 to accept the new plan of the directors whereby board will be served at Memorial Hall on the American plan at $5 a week. There was little opposition to the change as the vote shows and while a number of people interested in the Association are not confident that it is the best basis on which to place the Association for good and all, there is no question it will be an improvement, and affairs seem to work out so uncertainly in connection with Memorial that it would...
...margin. An average of these years shows a vote of 58 per cent. for the officers and 44 per cent. for the committees. From any point one cares to view it these are disgracefully low figures. In political elections of the city or nation two-thirds of the total number of voters usually cast a ballot while here, where a class of 620 students is engaged in choosing important officers once and for all, not enough public interest can be aroused to poll a vote of more than 51 per cent...
...intercollegiate cup will be held one year by the winning team. In order to gain permanent possession, however, a team must win it for ten successive years. In scoring, each individual match counts one, the championship being awarded to the team winning the greatest number of points...
...recent number of the University Gazette contained an announcement of a change in the requirements for admission to the Freshman class. An attempt seems to have been made to simplify these requirements, though without changing the amount or quality of work necessary by reducing the number of specific requirements. Candidates for the degree of A.B. are no longer required to take a certain number of advanced studies, though they are advised to do so, and the list of studies available has been increased by the addition of Botany, Drawing and Civil Government, all of which are now commonly taught...
...result of the balloting yesterday A. G. Cable was elected Secretary of the Senior class. The names of the men who were elected to the Class, Class Day, and Photograph Committees are announced in the complete list of Class Day officers in the adjoining column. Below is given the number of votes cast for each candidate. Out of a total voting-list of 697, 246 members of the class voted. The committees will elect their own chairmen. SECRETARY. A. G. Cable, 177 H. B. Barton, 36 H. Gray, 33 CLASS COMMITTEE. R. M. Middlemass, 142 W. M. Rand...